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Dead fish surface in Kamlanagar pond

TNN | Updated: Aug 10, 2018, 13:42 IST

Fishes are suspected to die due to pollution in the pond

VADODARA: Dead fishes surfaced in the Kamlanagar pond in the Ajwa Road area on Thursday morning. It is believed that the fishes may have died due to pollution in the pond. The Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) had recently spruced up the Kamlanagar pond at a cost of Rs four crore. While the pond was cleaned up and its embankment were concretised, sewage contamination seems to have resumed in it.

VMC councillor Vijay Pawar said that he had spotted the contamination some time back and even informed the top brass of the civic body. “But no action was taken in this regard immediately. I had even forwarded a video clip of sewage being released into the pond,” he said. Kamlanagar pond was amongst the first to be spruced up in the city. Environmentalists had, however, raised questions about the work on the pond stating that with stone masonry embankments it had become a tank and would not be a live water body. It was after this that the VMC stopped the process of having concrete borders of ponds.